Luke Grimes

You've got the guys on salary.

So you just have to keep going.

It's actually really hard for it to pencil out when you're just doing a show here and there.

I do that every time I play a music show.

I'm like, can I just call it off?

Do you still get stage fright right now?

Really bad.

Really?

Well, that's the thing, man.

I'd always played music, and when I was playing in bands and playing out, I was the drummer.

Oh.

But I always wrote songs and stuff, but I never thought... I had never had ambition around, like, I want to be the guy in front of the microphone.

That was never, you know, the plan.

And then, you know, to be able to make an album, which I wanted to do, you have to go stand in front of the microphone, and that's the hard part for me.

I love being in the studio.

I love writing the songs.

I love making the music, recording the music, but there's something about...

knowing that all these people have shown up and bought a ticket to see you.

And you're like, all of a sudden this thing starts happening in me.

We're like, they bought a ticket, imposter syndrome.